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Finding Nemo – Movie Review – DVD Details Included

30 May 2009 6:33 AM, PDT | From AreYouScreening.com | See recent AreYouScreening news

Pixar certainly knows a lot about animation, and that’s what people think of first when you mention the company, but what everyone ought to think of first is that they know a lot about movies. As amazing as their computer-created worlds are, their moviemaking skills far outshine them. ‘Finding Nemo’ is an incredibly impressive view of things that are among the most difficult to animate, not the least of which being the water itself, but it is also one of the best stories about fathers, sons, and humans in general that you’ll run across. The movie starts with Marlin (Albert Brooks), a clownfish, showing his wife the new home he’s found for them. We only get a brief glimpse of hundreds of their eggs, and the playful, colorful world of the reef on which they live, when a barracuda appears. Cut to Marlin finding the one remaining egg.

Marc Eastman

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Jessica Biel's Beauty Problem (Oh, Really?)

19 May 2009 5:32 PM, PDT | From Cinematical.com | See recent Cinematical news

Big news: another beautiful actress laments that her good looks limit her acting choices. Jessica Biel says that being so attractive "really is a problem ... I just want an opportunity," she told Allure for their June issue, on sale next week. "If you don't like the audition, then don't hire me! But if you don't want to even see me - that's hurtful."

The quick conclusion to draw is that Biel is seriously delusional, that she's another spoiled, overpaid pretty girl. "Wah wah wah! Poor, poor, pitiful me!" However, none of the interview is online, only quotes that are scattered among various online outlets, so it's impossible to evaluate the context of her quote. Biel may, in fact, be delusional about her own abilities; on the other hand, what's wrong with yearning for the opportunity to demonstrate a wider range of her skills, and not to be judged by her looks alone?

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Peter Martin

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Review: I Love You, Man

20 March 2009 11:02 AM, PDT | From Cinematical.com | See recent Cinematical news

(We're reposting this review from SXSW to coincide with the film's theatrical release this weekend)

By: Eugene Novikov

Up until now, Paul Rudd has been content to sit in the back seat. Apart from a funny but nondescript star turn in Role Models, Rudd has mostly bided his time on the fringes of the various Team Apatow productions, churning out one memorable supporting performance after another, plus the occasional bit part in the likes of Night at the Museum. That he's developed a small but enthusiastic fanbase anyway speaks to his star potential.

I Love You, Man is a sweet, amusing, and perfectly acceptable comedy all around, but it's exciting because it marks the point where Rudd finally begins to stake out his territory as a comedian and a leading man. As Peter Klaven, the happy and level-headed real estate agent who discovers, upon proposing to his girlfriend of eight months,

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Cinematical staff

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SXSW 2009: "How Did We Get Away With That?"

19 March 2009 8:03 AM, PDT | From ifc.com | See recent IFC news

"This movie's a comedy, I guess," director Jody Hill said in his introduction to "Observe and Report," the Seth Rogen-starring entry into the burgeoning mall cop genre. If Hill wasn't quite certain about what he had on his hands before the film played to a packed Paramount Theater, he could rest easy after the "weird-ass" character study pretty much killed it (both figuratively and all too literally at times, as Alison Willmore noted in her review on Indie Eye). By Tuesday morning, Hill and cast members Rogen, Faris, Michael Pena and Danny McBride were at the Austin Convention Center for a panel moderated by film critic Elvis Mitchell, who opened up the discussion by asking Hill, "what made you think the world needed a comedic version of 'Taxi Driver'?" (Later on in the panel, Rogen belatedly responded by asking in return, 'What if Albert Brooks was the

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Stephen Saito

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SXSW Review: I Love You, Man

14 March 2009 6:03 PM, PDT | From Cinematical.com | See recent Cinematical news

Up until now, Paul Rudd has been content to sit in the back seat. Apart from a funny but nondescript star turn in Role Models, Rudd has mostly bided his time on the fringes of the various Team Apatow productions, churning out one memorable supporting performance after another, plus the occasional bit part in the likes of Night at the Museum. That he's developed a small but enthusiastic fanbase anyway speaks to his star potential.

I Love You, Man is a sweet, amusing, and perfectly acceptable comedy all around, but it's exciting because it marks the point where Rudd finally begins to stake out his territory as a comedian and a leading man. As Peter Klaven, the happy and level-headed real estate agent who discovers, upon proposing to his girlfriend of eight months, that his total lack of guy friends will result in an all-female wedding party if he doesn't act fast,

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Eugene Novikov

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